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Corfu Books in Order

3 books from My Family and Other Animals (1956) to The Garden of the Gods (1978). Rated 4.5 across 3,154 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. My Family and Other Animals

    Book 1 1956 4.4 (2.3k)

    This memoir is soaked in the sunshine of Corfu, where Gerald Durrell lived as a boy, surrounded by his eccentric family....

  2. Birds, Beasts and Relatives

    Book 2 1969 4.8 (536)

    Gerald Durrell was 10 when he moved to Corfu, where he met intoxicated hedgehogs and a menagerie of eccentric friends....

  3. The Garden of the Gods

    Book 3 1978 4.7 (350)

    The enchanted island of Corfu was home to Gerald Durrell and his family for five years before the Second World War....

Adapted for screen

  • The Durrells TV series · ITV1 · 2016–2019 · 4 seasons

About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for Corfu is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.